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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Family Organizer is a Revit addon that can automatically organise the history of Autodesk® Revit® families of different version by creating the folders and sub folders with Revit Version and Category. This not only saves time, but can help make sure that library is managed consistently.
The Family Organiser can do the following task.

Select the source folder where all the families are saved from different version in unorganized way

Select the directory where the organised library should be updated

Run the command which then process to manage the library.

It is important to mention that family organizer will not change or delete the original files, it will take a copy of it, read all its property and save it into the proper target folder.

About This Version
Version 1.1.2, 10/26/2016
Initial Release.

The Family Organizer add-in is brought to you by Doxenter. It's priced at 24.95 USD.

Revit users can now filter and select Knauf products directly inside Revit. The Knauf Revit plugin provides the ability to add over 10,000 wall systems to a project at the touch of a button, directly from within Autodesk Revit.

Never again will you need to search multiple websites and catalogues for your bathroom and kitchens solutions!

Caroma proudly has one of the largest catalogues of Autodesk® Revit® files across Australia's building products industry. Our Revit® Add In contains our extensive range of market leading products and brands all in the one location, within Revit®, saving you valuable time during the design and specifying process.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

How much time have you spent trying to recreate or build schedules? What about trying to find or share a schedule? With UNIFI’s newly released support of Revit Quantity Schedules, you can easily set up or retrieve a schedule in seconds and you don’t even need to open Revit to view it. Learn how this time saving, headache-free solution that will enable you to focus on what you do best – designing and building structures. And, attend our webinar on October 26 at 10amPT to see Schedules in action.

The Value of Schedule Support Inside UNIFI

Schedules are data-centric views of a BIM model and are critical to a firm’s documentation workflow. The manner in which firms create and deploy schedules is similar to how content is managed, since schedules are the tool for the reporting of quantities and attributes of content.

The Dulux Colour Atlas Add-In for Revit® provides access to over 4,600 Dulux Colours including Decorative, Powder Coatings and Protective Coatings without leaving Revit®. Using the Add-In, surfaces in Revit® can be 'painted', automatically generating data to populate specification schedules. Automating this process makes the painting in Revit® faster, eliminates manual data entry and reduces errors. Version 2.0 now includes the capability to paint 'Split Faces' and paint surfaces within the Family Editor.

The Dulux DuSpec Add-In for Revit makes the process of creating detailed paint specifications within a BIM workflow faster than ever before. Using the DuSpec Add-In, specifiers can interrogate and data-mine their Revit project materials and apply DuSpec paint specifications to Revit Elements. These specifications can be scheduled and exported as both PDFs and Excel datasheets directly from the Add-In, or pushed natively back into Revit schedules.

Monday, October 24, 2016

A few new Revit add-ins debuted on the Autodesk App Store during the week of October 16th: one for working with datums, the free RevitTea Grid/Level, one for creating 3D PDFs, 3D PDF Maker, and the KeyShot 6 Revit Plugin for exporting to Keyshot 6 for rendering.

Ten add-ins were updated, including the folowing that received relatively significant updates: PowerCad-M, PowerCad-PNL, and Cloud Renderer.

BIM Track™
BIM Track™ is a web-based collaboration platform that empowers your team with better coordination workflows. It provides a central hub for all coordination information from design to construction | FreeAbout This Version: Version 1.6.1, 10/20/2016 – General bug fixes and improvements

BCFier is an Open Source BCF client developed to help you deliver better buildings.

Like IFC is the open standard for Building Information models, BCF (also developed by buildingSMART) is the open standard for Building Issues. BCFier is a set of plugins and standalone apps that handle BCF and integrate directly with BIM tools.

Contribute to the Open BIM community by developing and extending BCFier to support more platforms and and online services, BCFier is now Open Source!

AUTODESK REVIT ADDIN AND STANDALONE VIEWER

Create and open BCF files directly within Autodesk Revit 2015 and 2016. With BCFier you can create isseus of 3D and 2D* views, add multiple views and comments to an issue and easily share them with other team members. BCFier also features a standalone Windows app that lets you review BCF files without the need of third party tools.

Updated on December 14, 2016 with a working video.From the Sigma Estimates website...

Autodesk Revit integrates directly with Sigma. The Sigma app developed for Revit makes it easy to assign price codes to all families and export directly to Sigma for estimating.The interface has a lot of options for structuring the Cost Breakdown and grouping, applying filters, replace units, etc, and has been widely used on both small and complex projects. Since Sigma is an object focused system, all properties from the Revit objects are visible and useable in Sigma, and all objects can be highlighted directly in the 3D viewer for better understanding in the estimation process.

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Cloud Renderer for Autodesk® Revit® is an add-in for Revit that enables physically based rendering of Revit models either on the Microsoft® Azure® cloud platform or locally using LuxRender, physically based and unbiased rendering engine. 3D models created in Revit can be displayed in photo-realistic views or rendered with built-in photorealistic renderers. It is reasonably fast and produces high quality images. Physically based rendering provides images of much higher fidelity, but requires significant computational resources. For this reason Cloud Renderer utilizes advantages of cloud resources for rendering.

Cloud Renderer uses LuxRender engine for the photo-realistic rendering. LuxRender is a free and open source software rendering system. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality. It is based on the PBRT project, but differs from that program by focusing on production rendering and artistic efficiency instead of scientific purposes.

Cloud Renderer consists of two parts, Revit converter of 3D model data into a format appropriate for the LuxRender engine and a rendering cluster that resides on the Microsoft® Azure® platform.

LuxRender for Cloud deployment packages can be downloaded from AMC Bridge website (link) and deployed according to the user’s guide.

Cloud Renderer for Autodesk® Revit® offers the following features:

Physically based and unbiased rendering using LuxRender 1.6 engine that produces realistic images of photographic quality;

Panel board naming function now includes the level that the panel is placed on

Panel schedules can now be created or opened from the Single Line Diagram

Description

PowerCad-PNL provides a live 2D interface to view your projects electrical system layout in Autodesk® Revit® MEP. Unconnected panelboards are displayed and boards can be renamed. PowerCad-PNL also helps you find panelboards within your model with a function that locates a view where the panelboard is visible and selects it. The cable length between boards and load on each boards is displayed in the 2D interface. PowerCad-PNL also provides a link to PowerCad-5 for detailed electrical design, by exporting the panelboards and their connections into PowerCad-5. For more information on PowerCad-5 please follow the link http://www.powercad.com.au/powercad5.php

Separate window with live 2D line diagram displaying load and cable length.

Find your panel boards within your complex model easily.

Live 2D line diagram of all your panel boards and their interconnections.

New Electrical Equipment Module allows you to check all the electrical equipment in the model to ensure it has the correct data to allow connection to the electrical system

Tee-off Box's , Energy Meters and Split bus can now be modeled with the addition of 2 parameters to the Panelboard family then exported to Excel, a drafting view or PowerCad-5.

Sub circuit loads can now be exported to Excel and PowerCad-5

Panel board naming function now includes the level that the panel is placed on.

Electrical loads are categorised into load groups to AS/NZS 3000 for export to PowerCad-5

Panel schedules can now be created or opened from the Live Single Line Diagram

PowerCad-5 export can be saved to a file and then opened into PowerCad-5

Various bug fixs

Description

PowerCad-M provides a live 2D interface to modify your projects electrical system in Autodesk® Revit®. Within the 2D electrical schamatic you can move boards or circuits by draging to another board. A powerful electrical estimating tool is also included in PowerCad-M. It allows you to define electrical zones and quickly estimate the buildings total electrical load. Completed electrical designs can be exported to excel or published to a drafting view to be attached to your construction drawings.

PowerCad-M also provides a link to PowerCad-5 for detailed electrical design, by exporting the panelboards, their loads and cable length into PowerCad-5. For more information on PowerCad-5 please follow the link.

MWF Pro Wood
Are you a home builder looking to leverage the most powerful 3D building design software on the market, but need to provide construction grade shop drawings and cut lists? MWF HomeBuilder Suite for Autodesk Revit will automate wood framing of walls, floors, ceilings, rafters and trusses and provides excellent value. Whether you are creating single- or multi-family housing, using stick, panelized or modular construction methods, MWF HomeBuilder Suite will take your Revit model from the drafters table to the job site.

MWF Pro Suite
MWF Pro Suite is a bundle of MWF Pro Metal and MWF Pro Wood. Details may be found in either article related to these two products.

Trim and Extend tool doesn't work with Grid and Level. Extent end of Grid and Level have two modes: 3D model extent mode and 2D view specific extent mode. It's not easy to switch between two extent modes and drag their ends, especially if there are lots of Grids or Levels. It's tedious to click one by one to show or hide bubbles of many Grids or Levels. ReviTea Datum tools could make your work easy.

Trim Grids tool works similarly to the Trim and Extend tool of Autodesk® Revit®. With it you can easily trim or extend one or more Grids to a boundary defined by Grid, Level, Reference Plane or Detail Line.

Trim/Extend Multiple Grids 3D: Trim or extend multiple Grids 3D extents to the reference (Grid, Level, Reference Plane or Detail Line) as a boundary. The extent end of a Grid that is close to the boundary is trimmed or extended. Grids 2D extents will switch to 3D extents.

Trim/Extend Multiple Grids 2D: Trim or extend multiple Grids 2D extents to the reference (Grid, Level, Reference Plane or Detail Line) as a boundary. The extent end of a Grid that is close to the boundary is trimmed or extended. Grids 3D extents will switch to 2D extents.

Trim/Extend Multiple Levels 3D: Trim or extend multiple Levels 3D extents to the reference (Grid, Reference Plane or Detail Line) as a boundary. The extent end of a Level that is close to the boundary is trimmed or extended. Levels 2D extents will switch to 3D extents.

Trim/Extend Level 2D: Trim or extend a Level 2D extent to the reference (Grid, Reference Plane or Detail Line) as a boundary. Levels 3D extents will switch to 2D extent.

Trim/Extend Multiple Levels 2D: Trim or extend multiple Levels 2D extents to the reference (Grid, Reference Plane or Detail Line) as a boundary. The extent end of a Level that is close to the boundary is trimmed or extended. Levels 3D extents will switch to 2D extents.

Switch Bubbles can show or hide multiple Grids/Levels bubbles according to a boundary defined by Grid, Level, Reference Plane or Detail Line.

Friday, October 21, 2016

Loaded out of the box with the pre-set libraries of critical framing templates, panel joins, framing conditions, and clashing rules, users are ready to start using the MWF Collaboration App virtually immediately. As critical members and No-Fly zones are placed in and above walls the modified clash detection engine looks for interfering ducts, structural members, and other such objects before producing clash reports. Coordinate directly with subcontractors using the generated reports or export to Navisworks for real time collaboration.

MWF Advanced Metal is the first commercial plug in to bring light gauge steel engineering to Revit®. Combining Revit® API and our own finite element analysis engine users can now use Revit® loads, local code and custom design criteria to easily engineer light gauge steel floor systems, as well as complex truss systems and individual trusses. A full set of detailed engineering reports are automatically generated for each engineered truss, as well as fabrication drawings and material lists.

Developed in conjunction with industry leaders, MWF Pro Metal’s intuitive UI facilitates the creation of nearly all aspects of light gauge steel framing within your Revit® model. With over 9 years of development and user experience, MWF Pro Metal’s robust features make it the industry standard in Revit framing software. Easily create framing templates containing all information for accurate framing then match each template to Revit® wall or floor types. MWF’s intuitive template manager allows for the creation of multiple panels with one click. Accurate cutbacks, opening framing conditions and accessories are all implemented within a panel based on the template information and the existing conditions in your Revit® model such as rough opening dimensions, panel widths and heights as well as any interference.

Home builders can now fully leverage the power of Revit®, using MWF Pro Wood

MWF Pro Wood is the ultimate Revit add on for wood builders. Capable of framing virtually any project from single family homes, to large scale multifamily structures, MWF Pro Wood is purpose built with wood construction experts in mind. MWF Pro Wood allows its users to create custom framing to define all aspects of wall, floor and roof framing, giving the software the information to then automatically apply the framing throughout the Revit model, simultaneously differentiating wall types, openings and penetrations throughout the project. With 3D framing complete, 2D panel drawings, cut lists, bill of materials and CNC output (optional plugin) are just a click away.

KeyShot 6 is an Autodesk® Revit® plugin which provides the ability to Render, Update and Export Revit geometry to KeyShot.

It’s the highest level of integration between your Revit session and KeyShot allowing you to export your geometry directly to KeyShot for rendering and keep it updated with KeyShot’s LiveLinkingTM technology.

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